PLAN
• Put name, PI number, course and essay number on each page
• Write essay question at the top of first page.
• Use header and footers
• Number pages
• Do not forget self reflection
• Try to keep within the word count.
• Do not forget references at end of essay.
Introduction: Paragraph 1
• What is rubbish?
• Meaning of the word value.
• Brief description of consumer society.
• Introduce key words from question.
• Prepare for main body of essay. Link all paragraphs, should run smoothly.
Main Body:
Paragraph 2 – affluence and consumption
• Consumer society is made by what people have not what people do (this is how they identify themselves). No longer live in an Industrial society.
• Describe Bauman concepts - the seduced and the repressed – social exclusion.
• Link next paragraph.
Paragraph 3 – Economic value – waste services
• What is economic value?
• Who makes money out of rubbish
• Ref WRAP (page 106).
• Where does this rubbish/waste go?
• What effect does it have on the environment?
Paragraph 4 – aesthetic value.
• Objects lose value and can regain with time.
• Outline Thompson theory – transient, rubbish and durable.
• Use graph (chapter 3 page 123) & Stevengraphs (pages 124/25) as evidence.
• Link next paragraph.
Conclusion: Paragraph 5
• Outline what has been discussed in the essay.
• Finish conclusion linking question.
Outline the ways in which rubbish can be said to have value in a consumer society.
Social Scientists focus their studies on society and the way in which people live. This is known as a Consumer Society. A society in which people often buy new goods, goods they tend not to need. Rubbish plays a big part in a consumer society, a society driven by the power of consumption. Consumption is defined by how and what people purchase, how they use them and how they are then disposed of. Rubbish is...